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Putting Data at the Center: All Subsurface and Wells Data Stored in a Single Data Platform

The Open Group Open Subsurface Data Universe™ Forum is developing a standard data platform for the oil and gas industry, which will reduce silos and put data at the center of the subsurface community. The OSDU data platform will: • Enable secure, reliable, global, and performant access to all subsurface and wells data • Reduce current data silos to enable transformational workflows • Accelerate the deployment of emerging digital solutions for better decision-making • Create an open, standards-based ecosystem that drives innovation This will revolutionize the industry’s ability to deliver new capabilities and reduce implementation and lifecycle costs across the subsurface community.

The OSDU Forum will:

The Open Group Open Subsurface Data Universe™ Forum

In the Spring of 2018, a group of leading oil and gas companies met to discuss how contemporary cloud technology could be used to transform the current complex data and application environment. The Open Subsurface Data Universe™ (OSDU) Forum, a Forum of The Open Group, was created with the objective of enabling new cloud-native data-driven applications with seamless access to the full range of subsurface and wells data as well as supporting existing applications and data frameworks.

The core principle of the OSDU solution is to separate data from applications. This will be achieved by developing a common data platform with standard public APIs and to involve global cloud hosting vendors to build working implementations that will:

By making this an open and transparent initiative, the OSDU data platform will be attractive for the industry as a whole, including oil and gas operators, cloud services companies, technology providers, software companies, academia, and others.

The OSDU Data Platform as an Industry Solution

• Allow companies to focus on the truly differentiating parts of business activities

• Reduce the resource and cost burden of independently designing and validating a subsurface data platform

• Influence and accelerate key reference components that will be the foundation of the Upstream Digital Transformation

• Publish a Reference Architecture: a cloud-native subsurface and wells data platform reference architecture with initial implementations by Microsoft ® Azure, Amazon Web Services® and Google ® GCP

• Define Application Standards to ensure applications (microservices), developed by various parties, can run on the same OSDU data platform

• Leverage Industry Data Standards for frictionless integration and data access

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Business Impact

Current Members

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• Reducing data silos: subsurface and wells data integrated and accessible in one data platform

• Workflows in the cloud: user workflows seamlessly executed across the OSDU data platform, taking advantage of powerful cloud-native solutions

• Access to all metadata: users will have access to powerful search capabilities

• Competition and co-operation: software vendors, oil companies, academia, and open community projects can develop software on the OSDU data platform

• Accelerate platform design and development efforts by taking advantage of work that has already been proven

• Reduce the cost burden of designing and validating a subsurface data platform on your own

• Accelerate your digital agility through increased collaboration with a community of experts

• Benefit from a community developed non-differentiating data platform enabling the rapid and low cost development of differentiating strategic business workflows and solutions by vendors, operators, academia, and others

Founding Members

Operators: Anadarko, BP, Cepsa, Chevron, Concho Resources, ConocoPhillips, Devon Energy, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Hess, Marathon Oil, Pandion Energy, PETROBRAS, Reliance Industries, Shell, Total and Woodside

Suppliers: Altus Well Experts, AWS, Baker Hughes GE, Beyond Limits, Bluware, CGG, Cognite, Dell Technologies, EACIIT, Emerson E&P Software, Energistics, Flare Solutions, Google, Halliburton, Hitachi Vantara, IHS Markit, Ikon Science, INT, Interica, KADME, Katalyst Data Management, Larsen and Toubro Infotech, Logic Solutions Group, Microsoft, OAG Analytics, Oliasoft AS, Osokey, PGS Geophysical AS, Quantico Energy Solutions, Qumulo, Schlumberger, Searcher Seismic Geodata, SecurityCompass, Softserve,Target Energy Solutions, TGS, Triton Data Services, Troika International, Well Log Data, Wipro, and XMPRO.

The Open Subsurface Data Universe™ Forum provides a vendor-neutral environment for the development of an open data platform and ecosystem. It utilizes the global reach of The Open Group to build awareness, recognition, and adoption.

The OSDU Forum is open to stakeholders from oil and gas operators, service companies, technology providers, software companies, academia, and others. The aim is to accelerate innovation and transformation in the industry.

By actively participating in the OSDU Forum your organization can:

To find out more about participating in this new initiative, please visit www.opengroup.org/membership or email memberservices@opengroup.org

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Current Scope

Current Problem Statement

• Coverage: any organization with a need to store, manage or analyze subsurface and wells data

• Portfolios: subsurface including exploration, development, and wells

• Support for data-driven applications: all data in one data platform significantly accelerates an organizations ability to take advantage of advanced data science, machine learning, and deep learning tools

“It is our belief that the foundation of a digital energy company is to make data available to our users at any time and place. The OSDU Forum supports this ambition by enabling standardized access to subsurface data, separating lifecycle data management from the applications enabling innovation and creative use of subsurface data.”

Harald Laastad, VP and Program Lead Subsurface Analytics, Equinor

• Data is linked to applications: we are not data-driven but applications-driven and, therefore, we will have silos

• Data is stored in silos: therefore, there is no lineage between data sources or from wells back to exploration

• Metadata is not stored with the data: metadata is information about the data

• Limited/no search capabilities: since we have no metadata we have no real search capabilities

• Data set-up: not suitable for data-driven applications

The OSDU data platform will:

• Revolutionize the industry’s ability to deliver new subsurface capabilities

• Create an open, standards-based ecosystem that drives innovation

• Accelerate the deployment of emerging digital solutions for better decision-making

• Reduce implementation and lifecycle costs

• Eliminate current data silos to enable transformational workflows

• Provide access to all metadata: users can access their data and applications wherever they are

• Create new opportunities for monetizing intellectual property:

• Moving to subscription models for applications or services sold by independent software and services providers

• Opportunity for multiple competitors to sell specialized algorithms or workflows that are easily integrated because of compliance to OSDU standards

OSDU Value

OSDU Scope

“Having worked with The Open Group to launch the OSDU Forum and contributed several of our own developments, Shell is very pleased with the acceptance in the market to date. We believe in putting data at the center as an industry, and that offering a broad API-driven platform for application development is crucial to support organizations in this sector.”

Johan Krebbers, GM Digital Emerging Technologies/VP IT Innovation, Shell

User Interface (HTML5)

Workflow / Orchestration Services

Application Services(Exploration / Development / Wells)

DataIngestionServices

DataPlatform Services

APIs

Infrastructure Platform Services

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In-CountryInfrastructure

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Application Platform Services(Calculation Services /

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Information Security

• All public cloud-based: provides unlimited scalability

• All data for the data platform services loaded via the data ingestion services: extract metadata, data quality, etc.

• Well-defined (RestFUL) APIs defining the access to the data platform services

• Applications: (micro) services-based

• Information security: covering all elements with focus on data security

• In-country solution: for those countries where we are unable to move data out of the country and where there are no cloud services

• Support for legacy applications based on Microsoft® Windows or Linux® desktop

The OSDU Forum is actively working to publish an OSDU data platform demo that delivers the same cloud-enabled functionality on both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, as defined by OSDU Forum specifications. This shared demo will be available to OSDU Forum Members at the end of Q2 2019, and the first commercial release is scheduled for Q3 2019.

For further information, please visit www.opengroup.org/OSDU

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